Pensum
Textbook:
- Algeo, J. & T. Pyles. 2005. The Origins and Development of the English Language. Thomas Wadsworth.
- Quirk, R. & C.L. Wrenn.1990. An Old English Grammar. London: Routledge.
Available in booklet from Akademika with articles and texts:
Primary texts:
- ‘The Battle of Ashdown’ (extract)
- ‘The Voyage of Ohthere’
- ‘The Orrmulum’ (extract)
- ‘The Nativity of Christ’: OE, ME, & eModE versions
- The Orrmulum (extract)
- Chaucer: ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ (extract)
- Ascham, R.: ‘Seeing the Wind’
- Wilson, T.: ‘Inkhorn Terms’
- Greene, R.: Pandosto (extract)
Article:
- Cameron, K. 1996. "Ch.6: Scandinavian place-names"; pp. 73-87. In: English place names. London BT Batsford.
Notes:
- Notes on OE and ME language
- Note on ‘the Great Vowel Shift’
Supplementary reading:
- Bennett, J.A.W. & G.V. Smithers (eds.). 1966. ‘Early Middle English’; pp. xviii-lviii of Early Middle English Verse and Prose, Oxford: Clarendon Press.